SKATEPARK MURAL

Location: Telluride Skatepark, Town Park

For this Telluride Skatepark project, Paul Distefano created a mural depicting a woman looking toward the mountains surrounding Telluride. The work explores resilience, reflection, and the ability to move forward, while connecting the painted figure to the landscape and community around it. For Paul, mural painting is an opportunity to create bold, accessible work that becomes part of its environment.

TELLURIDE PROPERTIES - CURATED BY TELLURIDE ARTS

SATELLITE SPOTLIGHT EXHIBITION: BEN ENG

LOCATION: 567 Mountain Village Blvd #106a, Mountain Village

Telluride Properties in Mountain Village is the host for a Telluride Arts curated Satellite Spotlight Exhibition, featuring local photographer Ben Eng.

GAIASCOPE

Location: Heritage Plaza, Mountain Village

Gaiascope is an interactive public artwork featuring three suspended kaleidoscopic sculptures. Visitors are invited to look inside mirrored chambers where original video art, light, and reflection unfold into immersive worlds of shifting color and pattern. For the complete illuminated and interactive experience, visit after sunset!

WELL

Location: 212 W Colorado Ave, Telluride

Hosted by the Telluride Company, on their exterior seating wall, the Mountainfilm mural series returns with an artwork by National Geographic Explorer at Large Ami Vitale - titled “Well”.

TONY NEWLIN GALLERY

LOCATION: 100 W Colorado Ave, Telluride

The Tony Newlin Gallery features the wild and authentic nature photography of Tony Newlin.

This fall season we are excited to present the New Release photographs captured this year: Acacia Hideaway, Wapati Legacy, Bounding Tommy, & Radiant Skies.

tonynewlin.com • @tonynewlingallery

URSA RAVUS (PENNY BEAR)

LOCATION: 635 E Colorado Ave, Telluride

Ursa Ravus, or the Telluride Penny Bear, is 15 feet tall. Her fur is made of 187,000 embedded pennies in concrete over a body or carved styrofoam and a frame of steel tubing.

CITIZENS STATE BANK - CURATED BY TELLURIDE ARTS

LOCATION: with access from 201 South Fir Street, Telluride

Citizens State Bank is pleased to display art from local artists Celeste Bickford and Susan B. McCormick. We also partner with local merchants to enhance the ArtWalk experience at CSB with surprise pop-ups.

BELLA FINE GOODS

LOCATION: 213 West Colorado Avenue, Telluride

BELLA Fine Goods invites you to experience an exquisite, lovingly curated collection of fine art and fine jewelry—featuring exceptional work by artists and designers from around the world.

Featured Artists: Shari Lyon
Explore the luminous, dreamlike world of Shari Lyon, who masterfully paints using encaustic—an ancient technique that blends molten beeswax and damar resin. Her layered, textured compositions incorporate oil paint, photography, pastels, and drawing to create ethereal landscapes inspired by mythology, the sacred feminine, and the spirit of nature. Each piece is a delicate balance between control and spontaneity, capturing a moment suspended in time.

Luisa Rosas: Luisa Rosas' jewelry draws deeply from the inherent elegance and rhythm of the natural world. Her creations embody the seamless evolution of nature’s elements, presenting themselves in a pristine yet sophisticated manner. Inspired by the organic, modular structures found in nature, repeating patterns, intricate textures, and harmonious forms, each piece mirrors the beauty of the earth’s design. Just as nature unfolds in a balanced and continuous way, Rosas’ work captures this essence, translating the timeless patterns of the natural world into exquisite, wearable art.

Discover beauty. Celebrate craftsmanship. Connect with the extraordinary. We can’t wait to welcome you.

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FRINGE GALLERY

LOCATION: 307 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride

For the month of October, Fringe Gallery is featuring a selection of clay sculpture by Telluride artist Julie McNair. Two recently completed figurative wall sculptures are featured alongside existing standing sculptures as well as a collection of cleverly collaged ceramic swallows and rainbow trout. The artist will be in the gallery during the October Art Walk: Thursday, October 1st, from 5 - 7pm. She is also participating in the Ah Haa School for the Arts' new studio tour event, Artabout, on October 3rd.

fringegallery.com • @fringegallerytelluride

MILK MOON GALLERY

LOCATION: 307 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride

This October, Milk Moon is pleased to present ‘Friends and Neighbors’, a group show featuring four of our favorite painters from the San Juan Mountains. Artists Emma Kalff, Emily Palmquist, Meredith Nemirov, and Tammi Brazee draw inspiration from both the striking natural environs of the Rockies, and the many facets of everyday life in our wild and remote corner of the Southwest. ‘Friends and Neighbors’ is a love letter to the natural beauty of our home and the deep well of talent it houses.

In her complex and personal oil paintings, Palmquist utilizes self portraiture, abstraction, and intimate, symbolic representations of the plants, animals, and landscapes of the Southwest to explore her inner world. The animal denizens of the Rockies also make frequent appearances in Brazee’s oil and acrylic paintings, employed as clever (and delightfully humorous) metaphors for aspects of the human psyche.

Beginning as plein air studies, Kalff’s observant oil paintings juxtapose the striking landscapes of the San Juans with quiet moments of daily life in intimate, evocative scenes which feel simultaneously place-specific and widely relatable. Also a plein air painter, Nemirov draws on countless hours spent painting and sketching outside in her variously abstracted mixed media works that explore the natural world through the lenses of conservation, history, and ecology.

milkmoon.art • @milkmoongallery
Exhibition Dates: October 1st – 31st

AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

LOCATION: 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride

ArtAbout
Local Art Exhibition & Studio Tour

Join Ah Haa for a preview exhibition of participating ArtAbout Artists giving folks a sneak peek of they can experience at the various open studio stops on Saturday, October 3rd. Opening for Artwalk, over thirty local artists will exhibit their works across all mediums, including painting, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, jewelry, textiles, sculpture and woodworking.

The new fall event, ArtAbout on Saturday, October 3rd from 10am-4pm, provides a rare glimpse into local artist studios and opportunity to directly experience their artistic process. Organized by Ah Haa School for the Arts, this is a free, self-guided artist studio tour with eight stops and over thirty artists who will open the doors of their studios to the public, allowing visitors to understand their process, shop their artwork and develop connections and relationships. ArtAbout maps can be found at Ah Haa or Telluride Visitors Center. The easily drivable route encompasses studios in Telluride, Lawson Hill, Ilium and Deep Creek taking participants on an art-driven road trip during peak leaf peeping season.

ahhaa.org • @ahhaaschooltelluride

LA COCINA DE LUZ

LOCATION: 123 E Colorado Ave, Telluride

La Cocina de Luz is featuring "Portals in Steel", imaginary world paintings by Jane Marshall and sculpture by Jane Marshall and Justin Glidewell.

On exhibit here, "The Raven’s Repast", we see a dinner party with the guests including a river running down the middle of a torn tablecloth, a rainbow and a series of planets who showed up late to the party. Also invited and flying in were crows and two tropical and delightful oropendolas who brought along their nests to the dinner party.

All the paintings in this exhibit are enlarged prints from the original paintings fabricated on AluPoly (aluminum composite printed on high resolution UV flatbed printer with UV curable ink). This direct print process endures the ink bonds permanently to the polyester coated aluminum, producing vibrant smudge-proof and weather resistant signage.

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TELLURIDE ARTS HQ GALLERY

LOCATION: 135 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride

For October’s Art Walk, join Telluride Arts for Cuéntame, Copita, a ceramic arts project by 2025 Art for Art’s Sake grant recipient Dominique Bruneau Saavedra.

Through 15 handcrafted ceramic pieces engraved with poetry, folk sayings, lyrics, and collected testimonies, Dominique explores migration, memory, identity, and belonging. Drawing connections between the Andes Mountains of her childhood and the San Juan Mountains she now calls home, Cuéntame, Copita creates a tactile archive honoring the stories and voices of Telluride’s immigrant community.

TELLURADO STUDIO

LOCATION: 219 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride

The Tellurado Studio proudly features the artwork Markus Pierson, who explores a mythic narrative with his Coyote Series, each piece symbolic of wanderlust and living beyond the boundaries. The protagonists of these hand-embellished prints are the Coyotes: enigmatic figures searching for the next big adventure. Stop in and see the newest editions of Pierson’s collection.

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ELINOFF & CO. GALLERY

LOCATION: 204 West Colorado Avenue, Telluride

Elinoff Gallery specializes in luxury fine jewelry and fine art. Visit the gallery to view their offerings of diamond, gemstone and designer jewelry from Waskoll of Paris, Mikimoto, Daniel K, Chopard, as well as men’s and women’s watches from Chopard, Biacograt, Meyer’s and Tag Heuer. They also specialize in modern art including originals and graphics by Cassatt, Degas, Picasso, Chagali, Russian, American and European contemporary artists.

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ATELIER TELLURIDE

LOCATION: 215 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride

Atelier Telluride is featuring work created by local artist Joanie Schwarz. Fine jewelry, hand stitched clothing, oils paintings and encaustic. Living in wonder and exploration is the artist’s way.

ateliertelluride.com‍ ‍• @ateliertelluride

BAKED IN TELLURIDE

LOCATION: 127 South Fir Street, Telluride

Baked in Telluride welcomes local artist Steven Green, whose work reflects a lifelong passion for capturing the beauty and spirit of the Colorado landscape. Green grew up in Colorado Springs, received his BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and moved to Telluride in 1979.

Inspired by the San Juan Mountains and nearby canyons, Green creates paintings and drawings that offer a fresh perspective on his surroundings. His work features bold colors, strong, simple shapes, and expressive elements—from trees dancing in the wind to rivers cutting through cliffs and sparkling in the sun. Through his paintings, Green aims to capture the magic and soul of the natural world.

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FOREST CREATURES

LOCATION: Mountain Village

A collaboration between Telluride Arts, Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association.

THE CABINS AT MOUNTAIN VILLAGE

LOCATION: Mountain Village

A collaboration between TMVOA, the Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Arts

ONLY WE KNOW WHAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN

LOCATION: The Gondola Station at the Ridge, between Telluride and Mountain Village

Local artist Brandon Berkel has donated his artwork titled “Only We Know What It Could Have Been” to the Town of Mountain Village.